Pop-Science, 2021

Epigenetics is a growing and promising area of drug discovery research. To date, efforts in this direction have led to over 100 clinical candidates and seven FDA-approved drugs [1-2]. The main idea be...

Scientists launched regeneration after a heart attack, and healed the heart Almost every tissue in the human body is able to recover from damage, regenerating — growing again. The skin repairs scra...

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is familiar to neurophysiologists as an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system.

Protein kinase inhibitors are an important class of drugs. The FDA has approved over 70 small molecules with this type of action [1, 2]. Approved kinase inhib...

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the adult brain. And since everyone, including our brain, needs to relax from time to time for normal work, GABA maintains the...

In people with sickle cell disease, the structure of hemoglobin, a protein of red blood cells that carries oxygen, is disrupted. Due to a hereditary mutation in such people, hemoglobin does not assemb...

Diabetes mellitus was a fatal disease for humans 100 years ago. Its development of begins with the fact that the child’s immunity after some trigger (stress, illness) starts to damage his beta-c...

The obesity epidemic is growing every year, and science has long been trying to find a way to treat obesity. At the same time, the functioning of adipose tissue is strongly influenced by the immun...